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Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View PostThe example was figurative: Reductio ad absurdum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostPeople, not least on CUK, are always complaining about or lauding the effects of immigration on the UK but what does it do for the countries involved? It may on fact be pretty negative.
Check this study on the effect of remittances on Romania.
Romania is not an exception in this, you will find plenty of properly researched evidence on foreign aid which similarly shows that money from abroad often has little or no positive effects on sustainable economic growth in the recipient nations.
Perhaps more importantly, If talented and hardworking people are always going to choose to go abroad rather than stay and increase the prosperity of their own nations by starting businesses or otherwise contributing to their own economies, how will those economies ever grow?
That is not to say that richer nations should not help poorer nations to develop but rather that we need investment in their economies that will encourage proper long term growth in the nations concerned, and which will benefit ourselves in the long term. No one country, unless it's the size of the US, can produce all of the goods and provide all of the services it needs, and it would make sense to cooperate with other countries, both within and outside the EU, and encourage each to do those things they are good at.
Simply allowing and encouraging mass migration may be the last thing that poorer nations need.
This is a deeply patronising and untrue assessment of what Romanians do with their money.
The real point here is that emigration is unlocking skills markets. With few choices skilled workers remain in their job when they should be getting promoted or moving to another company. This means that new workers can move into the company or up the ladder. Unlike the UK it is not as if the basic supply of graduates is lacking. Romania educates its people very well. Furthermore their engineers remain in engineering and job competition from abroad keeps Romanian employers honest (many don't pay their workers)
The money they send home is to pay basic costs of living of their families. If some of it filters into entrepreneurial activities then so much the better. if a strawberry picker can afford to send enough money home to buy a £1,000,000 villa then I am in the wrong business.
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostCan you give an example of a culture where young virgins are sacrificed?
But for the hard of thinking:
Cultures of human sacrifice, both past and present. Virginity often more aspirational than mandatory.
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Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View PostIn some cultures young virgins are sacrificed. So what?
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostThat's your best counter-argument? It's a shame you didn't grow up in a culture which taught you the value of using reasoned debate.
Originally posted by d000hgThat's because you grew up being told you were important, in a society/culture which places individual rights very highly. Many cultures weigh things differently and the idea that nobody can make decisions for you is rather narrow.Originally posted by meIn some cultures young virgins are sacrificed. So what?
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostOf course you can't have two opposing absolutes
Originally posted by xoggoth View Postbut it makes sense to try and balance the two. The problem with current human rights laws is the idiotic idea that, in a crowded and interdependent society, one person's rights can exist in isolation from everyone else's.
Does not mean we cannot have sensible laws that try and achieve a sensible balance that most accept.
The only right that can possibly be be, logically speaking, objectively valid is the right of a person to self-determination; and all other objectively legitimate rights would be derivative of that (i.e. a right to not be raped derives from a right to self-determination, or if it's clearer - a right to live free from the initiation of violence or threats thereof).
Now, when it comes to 'balance' as you mention - so long as you don't believe in objective rights, derived from an objective morality, in the context of an objective reality (i.e. if any of those moral premises & rights contradict themselves, each other, or reality), then we can't possibly sensibly debate the issue.
Without that objectivity you can't sensibly debate other people who don't have it either, or visa versa - because how can you labour to convince someone of a truth, when that truth doesn't necessarily have to be based in objective reality? It's a performative contradiction, and you might as well try to convince your lounge wall that the flying spaghetti monster exists - because outside the context of reality (implying objectivity and non-contradiction) then spoken ideas and concepts are just meaningless noise. A debate necessarily implies a value in truth (even if that value is in a deliberate distortion of that truth in the form of a lie), so when objective truth is something to be compromised then a debate cannot be what is occurring - it's just people making noise.
If objectivity & non-contradiction is an agreed a priori between 2 people, then reasonable debate can take place - even if that involves people saying "this is immoral, BUT... I'd do this anyway because I personally think the end result is best".
You can compromise on one's adherence to virtue (no one has to be morally virtuous), but it's impossible to compromise on reality.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostYour attitude seems to be an individual should have the ultimate decision over everything
If everyone has a right to self-determination, then it is again logically impossible for an individual to have the ultimate decision over everything.
Originally posted by vetran View PostI just asked if you believe individuals should be able to decide what they want to do why shouldn't countries decide how to behave based on the hopefully democratic wishes of their populace.
You asked the question, I answered.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostThat's because you grew up being told you were important, in a society/culture which places individual rights very highly. Many cultures weigh things differently and the idea that nobody can make decisions for you is rather narrow.
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If you can tell me how a country can have absolute self-determination, AND all individuals within that country can also have absolute self-determination, then go for it!
Does not mean we cannot have sensible laws that try and achieve a sensible balance that most accept.
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Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View PostSanity isn't statistical
If you can tell me how a country can have absolute self-determination, AND all individuals within that country can also have absolute self-determination, then go for it! Tell me. I'd bet my house, though, that you can't come up with anything that makes any kind of logical sense.
But you defined that, I just asked if you believe individuals should be able to decide what they want to do why shouldn't countries decide how to behave based on the hopefully democratic wishes of their populace.
Your attitude seems to be an individual should have the ultimate decision over everything is obviously unworkable once groups of people start to exist.
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Originally posted by vetran View Postthat is your opinion, if you look at the UN, NATO etc etc you will find most people consider countries slightly differently.
You seem to be swimming against the tide.
If you can tell me how a country can have absolute self-determination, AND all individuals within that country can also have absolute self-determination, then go for it! Tell me. I'd bet my house, though, that you can't come up with anything that makes any kind of logical sense.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostThat's because you grew up being told you were important, in a society/culture which places individual rights very highly. Many cultures weigh things differently and the idea that nobody can make decisions for you is rather narrow.
Children are NOT born nice, researchers claim | Daily Mail Online
Children are NOT born nice: Researchers claim that environmental factors play a major part in altruism
New experiments indicate altruism has environmental triggers
Suggest altruistic behaviour governed more by relationships than instincts
Are children born nice?
It is one of the most debated concepts in psychology, whether altriusm is a result of nature or nurture.
Now, a pair of Stanford psychologists has conducted a new series of experiments that show altruism has environmental triggers, and is not something we are simply born with.
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